LibGuides: Humanities: Year 7 Geography Water Wise

Water Links

What are the consequences of floods?
Floods impact on both individuals and communities, and have social, economic, and environmental consequences. The consequences of floods, both negative and positive, vary greatly depending on the location and extent of flooding, and the vulnerability and value of the natural and constructed environments they affect.

This website is maintained by the Government of Queensland and is clearly written even for people who are not experts.
What are the impacts of floods?
This South Australian Government site describes the benefits as well as destruction of floods in Australia.
Save Water.com Australia
The savewater!® Alliance works with member water businesses, government agencies, and product and technology providers to invest in delivering a range of
outcomes across three focus areas: 1. water conservation and efficiency 2. valuing water products and initiatives, and 3. product and technology solutions. Its aim is to accelerate water-efficiency and conservation behaviour change and water saving product purchasing in line with government and water industry needs.
Melbourne Water website
Australian Government: Dept of Environment
The Australian Government is providing national leadership on the challenges of meeting future demand for water in a drying climate.
The Murray-Darling Basin Plan delivers on the Australian Government's commitment to restore the Basin's rivers and wetlands to health while supporting strong regional communities and sustainable food production.
CSIRO Water website
Providing Australia with solutions for water resources management while protecting and restoring our major water ecosystems.
South East Water
South East Water provides a range of free water based activities and resources for teachers and students.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WATER
American Government site. With its many uses for drinking, recreation, sanitation, hygiene, and industry, water is our most precious global resource. Clean and safe drinking water is critical to sustain human life and without it waterborne illness can be a serious problem. Water, which is necessary for recreational water activities like swimming, also helps promote healthy living. Often, water’s vital role is most apparent during an emergency or disaster. We launched the Healthy Water website in 2009 to provide answers to your water-related questions.
Pacific Institute The Worlds Water
A project of the Pacific Institute, this site is a companion to our biennial book, The World’s Water, and also provides links to a wide range of water resources.
Water use it wisely
An American site - good except of course they use imperial measures such as gallons rather than litres...
World Health Organisation Water issues
Very trustworthy site. Topics covered include sanitation, drinking water, water-borne diseases, waste water, household use and more.

World Geography and Culture Database
Countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills. Easy access to articles, maps, flags, current news, statistics, a gazetteer, and more! Examine and understand people, and the various cultures, traditions, and environments of the world in which they live.

Encyclopedia of Earth
The Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. Nearly 7,000 articles. The intended audience is the general public. Articles contain links and a list of further resources. A good alternative to Wikipedia for environmental topics.
Wikipedia
Excellent site to search.

Desalination Plant Wonthaggi
The Victorian Desalination Plant uses reverse osmosis technology to separate salt from seawater to create high quality drinking water.

The Age Digital Edition Newspaper

The Age Digital Edition
Provides searchable access to exact replicas of The Age newspapers from 2006 up to this morning's edition. You will need to use the Kilbreda library's username and password. These are posted up on the walls in the library or you can ask a friendly library staff member or teacher.

Books

To find BOOKS on water issues use the Destiny search feature here. Most books on Water Resources will be on the shelves at 333.91 while books on Water Pollution will be at 363.7 We also have several "Issues in Society" books which deal with water, the most relevant being "Water resources and Rights" which is available in hardcopy at 300 ISS or as an ebook.